From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 5:57:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5522415263 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 05:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id SAA14575; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:50:36 +0600 (UDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mobil.surnet.ru: uucgilh set sender to ilia@cgilh.chel.su using -f Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id SAA00496; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:00:55 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by jane.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA00761; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:11:14 GMT (envelope-from ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:11:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Ilia Chipitsine To: zhihuizhang Cc: Ilia Chipitsine , Zhihui Zhang , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you type _exactly_ the password for toor as you previously set up ?! Ilia Chipitsine On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, zhihuizhang wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > > 1. 'man chpass' > > 2. 'man vipw' > > > > you can also delete 'root' user, login as 'toor' user and add 'root' user > > again :-) > > > > I can not delete the root user by rmuser. So I delete root by vipw. > After that, I exit and try to login in as toor. But this time no matter > whatever passwd I try, it won't log me in (I tries the old root password > or simple press enter at the passwd prompt). The passwd field for toor is > a * if you see it by vipw. > > Any idea? > > -Zhihui > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message